Atonement of Christ According to Dordt
H.C. Hoeksema defends the doctrine of limited atonement as the true position of the Canons of Dort against Professor Harold Dekker's claims that the atonement is universal in design but limited only in efficacious application. This pamphlet represents the classical Protestant Reformed critique of the well-meant offer theology that emerged from the 1924 Common Grace Controversy, arguing that the Synod of Dort taught a particular rather than universal atonement.
Introduction The rather obvious reason for a treatment of this subject at this time is that through Professor Harold Dekker’s writings in the Reformed Journal it has become a pertinent issue. Prof. Dekker holds to the proposition that God loves all men. He maintains, further, that there is only one love of God, and that this one love of God is redemptive, though, strange to say, he does not maintain that it is redeeming. In this connection, it naturally follows that he must say something about...